Exact β-functions in softly-broken N = 2 Chern-Simons matter theories

2011/01/21 by I. Jack, Christopher A. Luckhurst, C. Luckhurst
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep03(2011)076

published as JHEP 1103:076,2011 · 11 pages; 3 figures; references added

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Abstract

We present exact results for the beta-functions for the soft-breaking parameters in softly-broken N=2 Chern-Simons matter theories in terms of the anomalous dimension in the unbroken theory. We check our results explicitly up to the two loop level.

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